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Archimedes famously said, "Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world." Give an example of leverage in action, and explain how this related to the concept of mechanical advantage.
Suppose you had two simple machines and you knew that one had twice the mechanical advantage of the other. How could you tell which was which, and how would that influence your use of the two tools? Can you give examples of common tools that display a variety of mechanical advantages?
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